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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1916
Page
12
Woodward & Lothrop promotes Colonial Glass dinnerware and glassware on the fifth floor. Highlights include Pyrex Guernsey Klever Kraft baking and serving wares with moderate prices, plus assorted tumblers bowls spoons and pitchers. Toiletware and white porcelain wash stands are offered with new patterns and evolving prices.
Porcelain Dinnerware may now be had in patterns and colorings as beautiful as the finest china at reasonable prices. Our American and English open stock dinnerware for summer use is worth your consideration. New blue patterns and old-fashioned reproductions popular in home furnishings. 100-piece sets from 6.75 dollars. Blue Tudor and Cordova patterns, reproductions of French china, 100-piece sets at 19.85 and 22.50.
Pyrex glass baking dishes claim to resist oven heat, cook faster and more evenly with less labor. They say food rarely burns and remains tasty, and that meals can be served from the same dish used for cooking.
An itemized list shows various serving pieces including ramekins custard cups and round casseroles with prices. Also listed are mustard jars with covers and spoons, dessert saucers, low comports sherbet dishes and tall sherbet glasses with pricing in dollars and cents.
An advertisement lists practical kitchen and pantry items including 6 piece mixing bowl sets in 5 to 10 inch sizes, glass provision jars, glass pura food containers, yellow mixing bowls with stripes, white porcelain salt boxes, yellow butter crocks, blue decorated custard cups, three value casseroles in white brown, brown and white earthenware casseroles with frames, nappies and bowls, all with various special prices and quantities.
In the Fifth Floor Homefurnishing Department a range of moth fighting products is offered. Available items include various Wayne Cedar Wardrobe Bags in multiple sizes, Manahan's Tarine sheets and moth cards, crystalline compounds, moth balls, and cedar and sulfur based products with pricing across items.
Mrs. Hannis Taylor hosted guests including Sir Sidney Copl e y and Mrs Roosevelt at a British wounded relief benefit before the ceremony for Miss Hanna Willard Taylor and Charles Clay Bayly. The wedding at 0 Street featured Rev. Father Buckey and a palace of roses, with reception at Rauscher’s.
The piece notes guests at a Bayly wedding with Mrs Bayly in navy blue, after which the couple plans residence at the Don Carlos. It also mentions a Mask and Wig Club performance in Washington with notable attendees and a Willard dinner honoring Joseph G Cannon’s 80th birthday, detailing guests and elaborate decor.
A long list of U S congressmen including Fitzgerald Fordney Foss Foster Fuller Gallinger Gardner Gillett Greene Griest Hadley Harding Hemenway Humphreys Kahn Kalani ana ole Kent Kitchin Lee Lewis Longworth Loud McAndrews McKenzie McKinley Madden Mann Mondell Moon Moore Nelson Page Porter Poll Rainey Roberts Rodenberg Shertey Sherman Sherman Williams Sterling Sulloway Sutherland Tilson Townsend Underwood Webb Weeks Wheeler Williams Williams Wilson Winslow Wood Woods Strohn Waters depart after winter stay.
Mrs Charles Howry and Mr and Mrs W C Morse of Chicago enjoyed tea at Octagon House garden as part of the British wounded aid fair. Delegates to the medical congress attended a Willard dinner hosted by Dr Henry J Sewall. Natreet hostess Mrs William R Merriam hosted a tea with D A R officers. Tuxedo Park opened summer sports with the yacht club race won by Pierre Lorillard Jr amid eight entries. Commodore Kane hosted a luncheon before the race with notable members present. Hot Springs visitors returned for tea amid mountain blooms. Luncheon at Fassifern Farm honored Gustavus F Swift Jr and guests including J K Secor and Frank DeLong. Further excursions and social activity from Vanderbilt, Kennard, and Ellis families noted along with Rembrandt bought by William A Clark for about 180000. Baseball benefit by Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs for Providence Hospital to be held June 3 under Mrs James F Barbour patronage.
Former Senator W A Clark of Montana is staying at the Lafayette. Richmond visitors Mrs George Ben Johnston Miss Anna Roy Johnston and Miss Nicketti F Johnston are at the Willard. Others arriving in Washington include Mrs L D Gilbert of Harrisburg and Miss Jean Cameron of England. Commodore Phelps family guests of Maj Earl Y Brown plan a New York trip. Commander Sparrow to sea duty as navigator.
Mrs Sparrow travels to Boston to visit sister Mrs George Prentiss Tubby and will summer with her parents in Boston. Dr W J Mayo of Rochester attends medical congress at Willard with Mrs Mayo. Mrs William Post and other New York guests visit former ambassador in Russia Mrs George T Marye. Mr and Mrs William Littauer host guests from Philadelphia for the horse show. Miss Amy E du Pont and Miss LeMolie of Wilmington and Mrs W M Shoemaker of Wilkes Barre stay at Hotel Lafayette. Mrs George Stanleigh Arnold of San Francisco visits her parents Representative and Mrs William Kent. Col Thomas Mann Thompson of Southport improves and stays with Maj and Mrs Earl L Brown at Mendota. Punch and Judy show for House of Mercy garden party May 16 at Cathedral Close. Mr and Mrs William Livingston Crounse visit New York, attend Taft banquet, then Atlantic City. Washington society at Home for the Blind benefit at Poll’s this evening with many notable guests. Alpha Kappa Psi Sorority hosts at Dupont Circle. Monday dances at Congressional Club halted. Cavalier celebration next Saturday at 7 p m at Miss Webster's 2126 R Street NW marking Jamestown landing centennial.
President Wilson attended the Bar num Batley circus with Mrs Wilson and party amid thousands of cheering spectators. Secretary McAdoo and other officials joined. the show featured clowns, freaks, and a bicycle riding bear named Bruno. Two performances were slated for today at 2 and 8 oclock.
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